Research funder · Germany
Volkswagen Foundation
Private German charitable Foundation
- Grants since 2016
- 2 365
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- €873.4M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 6 179
- Funded works, all time
- 18.7k
Grants
2021–2022 · research · Opus Magnum
The Institutions of Contemporary Capitalism: Bridging the Gap between Comparative and International Perspectives
Andreas Nölke · Goethe University Frankfurt
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Tracking the infodemic: Conspiracy theories in the corona crisis
Stephanie Evert · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
A "Democratic State of Exception": The corona virus controversy in Germany (February to May 2020)
Hagen Schölzel · University of Erfurt
2021–2023 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Fostering mental health during social distancing - from longitudinal surveys to online self-help interventions.
Björn Schlier · Universität Hamburg
2021–2024 · research · Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen-Israel
Random photonic circuits for neuro-inspired and quantum processing
Michael Kues · Leibniz University Hannover
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Rational identification of SARS-CoV-2 replication inhibitors targeting multiple enzymes of the replication-transcription complex
Birgit Strodel · Forschungszentrum Jülich
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Global value chains in Germany, India and Brazil after COVID-19 - Beginning of a new type of globalization?
Christina Teipen · Berlin School of Economics and Law
2021–2023 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Perception and Behavior Adaptation in Times of Corona and Populism: A Longitudinal Study.
Thorsten Faas · Freie Universität Berlin
2021–2026 · research · Freigeist-Fellowships
Culpable Ignorance: Moral Knowledge in Organisations
Marco Meyer · Universität Hamburg
2021–2024 · research · Digitalisierung in den Naturwissenschaften
Sailing Intelligent Micro Drifter Swarms (saimidris)
Thomas Badewien · Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2021–2023 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Extension Phase of the Senior Fellowship for Dr. Halkano Abdi Wario: Influencing Public Policies on Countering Violent Extremism in Africa: Building Synergy with Researchers in North and West Africa
Brigitte Reinwald · Egerton University
2021–2027 · research · Weltwissen - Strukturelle Stärkung kleiner Fächer
Cross-Linking Cultural Knowledge: Cooperative Structures in Cultural Anthropology Research, Teaching and Knowledge Transfer
Markus Tauschek · University of Freiburg
2021–2024 · research · Herausforderungen für Europa
Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe. The Role of Museums in a Digital "Post-Truth" European Society
Christoph Bareither · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2021–2022 · research · Originalitätsverdacht? - Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
Über den Wert der (Un)Wahrheit in der Demokratie
Elif Özmen · Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2021–2027 · research · Weltwissen - Strukturelle Stärkung kleiner Fächer
An Interdisciplinary Strategy for the Innovative Development and Long-term Consolidation of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Würzburg University
Daniel Schwemer · University of Würzburg
2021–2022 · research · Opus Magnum
Putting Critical Thinking in Its Place: A New Defense of Epistemic Authority
Thomas Grundmann · University of Cologne
2021–2022 · research · Opus Magnum
Kulturerbe als Aufgabe. Kanonisierung, Heterogenisierung, Politisierung
Gerhard Vinken · University of Bamberg
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
COVID-19 and the Dynamics of (Post-)War Violence: Lessons from Syria and Colombia
Sabine Kurtenbach · German Institute for Global and Area Studies
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives
Romana Radlwimmer · University of Tübingen
2021–2023 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
Male/Female pairs of "identical twin" stem cell lines for sex-specific disease modelling
Ina Gruh · Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Symposium "Entwerfen bildhafter Räume und begehbarer Bilder. Virtuelle Architekturen im Spannungsfeld der Disziplinen"
Philipp Reinfeld · Technische Universität Braunschweig
2021–2023 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
Quorum sensing artificial materials (QUOSAM)
Martin Hager · Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Corporations, Communities, Crowds: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency in 21st Century Culture
Simone Knewitz · University of Bonn
2021–2026 · research · Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene
Text Mining in Behavioral Economics with a Focus on the Solution of Social Dilemma Situations
Lisa Bruttel · University of Potsdam
2021–2023 · research · Originalitätsverdacht? - Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
,Europe reverse' - Sizilien als Labor ,hybrider Staatlichkeit' in Europa?
Christian Henrich-Franke · University of Siegen
2021–2023 · research · Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen-Israel
Spin-Based Quantum Sensing with Endohedral Fullerenes
Wolfgang Harneit · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2021–2023 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Workshopreihe "Right Livelihood College (RLC) Platform for Young East African Scientists - Improving the Productivity and Resilience of Smallholder Farming"
Till Stellmacher · Lund University
2021–2022 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
Directed Evolution of Materials
Wilfried Weber · University of Freiburg
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
A multi-stakeholder perspective on infection control in reception centers for asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Amand Führer · Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2021–2022 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Extension Phase of the Senior Fellowship for Dr. Robert Mbeche "Social - ecological Synergies and Tradeoffs in incentive-based Conservation in Kenya"
Robert Mbeche · University of Kassel
2021–2028 · research · Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene
Universal molecular syntax for sustainable machine learning applications
Sonja Herres-Pawlis · RWTH Aachen University
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
No Touching! The Corona-Crisis and Public Attitudes about Sex
Katinka Schweizer · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2021–2025 · research · Hochschule der Zukunft
Depression and burnout among physicians as a risk to health care - Analysis and promotion of self-regulation and well-being in medical students as preventive factors
Thomas Rotthoff · University of Augsburg
2021–2022 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Workshop "Designing Innovative Livestock Breeding Strategies in Ethiopia"
Dessie Salilew Wondim · Bahir Dar University
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
North and South Forms of inequality within international politics of knowledge production
Barbara Potthast · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2021–2023 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Senior Fellowship for Dr. Anita Etale "Tuning the Separation Properties of Thin-Film Nanocomposite Membranes by Polymeric Functionalisation of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets"
Anita Etale · University of Göttingen
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
(Un-)healthy Civil-Military Relations? Militarization of State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
Aurel Croissant · German Institute for Global and Area Studies
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Symposium "Crises capitalism. Shadow banking, central banks, and new configurations of state-financial market entanglements"
Joscha Wullweber · University of Kassel
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Symposium "Spanish Exile in Latin America: the Dialogue of Philosophy and Literature"
Matei Chihaia · University of Cologne
2021–2026 · research · Leben? - Ein neuer Blick der Naturwissenschaften auf die grundlegenden Prinzipien des Lebens
De novo organism design from membraneless orthogonal central dogma organelles
Edward Lemke · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz